[terry]

Hi Terry,
I was visiting Princeton with my oldest son during our east coast college tour trip and they stated that they had the longest streak of years with an NCAA champions at 40-something.    I was surprised to hear this, but maybe they are taking credit for some non-NCAA sport? 

Hats off to the ladies WoPo team!  I was getting very concerned.

Princeton has won 24 NCAA team championships. Half of those were in men's golf, all 12 of them in 1940 or earlier. The rest of them were in men's lacrosse (6, most recently in 2001), women's lacrosse (3, most recently in 2003), fencing (2, most recently in 2013), and field hockey (1, in 2012).

Princeton might be counting individual championships. Princeton athletes have won a total of 60 individual NCAA titles. It seems highly unlikely that those 60 individual titles include at least one for 40+ straight years. But I guess it's possible. As a point of reference, Stanford athletes have won 455 individual NCAA championships (as of Jan. 10), which leads all schools. U,S,C athletes are second with 378 individual championships.

[terry]

Hi Terry,
I was visiting Princeton with my oldest son during our east coast college tour trip and they stated that they had the longest streak of years with an NCAA champions at 40-something.    I was surprised to hear this, but maybe they are taking credit for some non-NCAA sport? 

Hats off to the ladies WoPo team!  I was getting very concerned.

Princeton has won 24 NCAA team championships. Half of those were in men's golf, all 12 of them in 1940 or earlier. The rest of them were in men's lacrosse (6, most recently in 2001), women's lacrosse (3, most recently in 2003), fencing (2, most recently in 2013), and field hockey (1, in 2012).

Princeton might be counting individual championships. Princeton athletes have won a total of 60 individual NCAA titles. It seems highly unlikely that those 60 individual titles include at least one for 40+ straight years. But I guess it's possible. As a point of reference, Stanford athletes have won 455 individual NCAA championships (as of Jan. 10), which leads all schools. U,S,C athletes are second with 378 individual championships.